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He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts ; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family.
Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him.
He attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money.
After enlisting in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point, Poe parted ways with the Allans.
His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems ( 1827 ), credited only to " a Bostonian ".
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